OT: What Album Do You Listen To All The Way Through?

Mid afternoon in Shanghai drinking and listening to music. Looking for feedback from the Board on albums (I say that in a generic sense in today's digital world) you put on and listen to all the way through.

Most of mine are old school since, one, I'm old (not like Herm old though), and, two, I just download one off songs these days.

Please enlighten me on what albums you play and listen to from start to finish so I can download some more music.

A few off the top of my head that I listen to from start to finsih.

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

Kid A - Radiohead

It's Dark and Hell is Hot - DMX

Gentlemen - Afghan Whigs

The Roots Come Alive - The Roots

Room On Fire - The Strokes

Bossanova - The Pixies

The Suburbs - Arcade Fire

Disintegration - The Cure

Nevermind - Nirvana

Life After Death - Notorious BIG

Murmur - REM

Pleased To Meet Me - The Replacements

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

Pretty Much Any Grateful Dead Live

That's enough....yes, I listen to The Beatles and The Smiths too...

EDIT: As expected you all came through! I spent way too many hours checking out a lot of different music today and dowloading quite a bit. Now it is sleep time in Shanghai. Thanks!

Just about any Radiohead, Wilco, Arcade Fire, or the National album I tend to listen to from start to finish. Partially, I like to start with Pablo Hunny and go chronically all the way up to the King of Limbs, and then work my way back down. It's like weightlifting, but with radiohead.

Damn I was wondering if someone would break from the mold of adult alternative, grunge era or classic rock and branch out. The Avett Brothers are outstanding song writers and extemely creative. I caught the Carolina Chocolate Drops last year and they were unique as well. Old Crow Medicine Show...if you enjoy a folk twist.

What an irony, I would (with all due respect) say the exact same thing about your suggestions re: "ain't what it used to be." Mine goes back even further: Eric B. & Rakim, Licensed to Ill/Paul's Boutique, Run DMC up through Raising Hell, LL up through Mama Said, Mix-a-lot's Swass, 3rd Bass, and so on.

am I the only one that listens to Dark Side of the Moon? Please tell me I'm not the only one who has played it along with The Wizard of Oz? (Back in the old days, we didn't have MTV, we used to get stoned and watch the radio)

When it first came out, I listened to Dark Side of the Moon over and over. And yes, I'm pretty sure you are the only one wh played it along to Wizard of Oz, but it does kind of make sense, in a stoned, ephemeral way.

And I just learned about it here today. In addition to sports info., I pick up at least one odd bit of cultural trivia per week reading MGoBlog posts. I guess this is my odd bit for the week (and at least this is one I don't have to ask my kids to explain to me; Google sufficed.)

Any pre-American Idiot Green Day album
Pretty much any Brand New album, maybe not Daisy
All of Coheed's albums
All of Circa Survive's albums
Bayside's albums minus the most recent
A lot of Alkaline Trio's albums except maybe one or two.
A lot of Pink Floyd albums (not Dark Side of the Moon, I always skip "Money")
A lot of stuff by Thrice, especially Vheissu, not Major/Minor
Catch-22 or Streetlight Manifesto - Keasbey Nights
Less Than Jake - Losing Streak
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
Jay-Z - The Blueprint, The Black Album
Thursday - Full Collapse, War All the Time
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Nirvana - Nevermind

Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Born in the USA, or Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band/ Live 75 to 85 (get this one if you like Bruce and want a well-rounded greatest hits)

Van Halen: 1984

Bon Jovi: New Jersey (Believe it or not, this is an awesome follow up to the more famous but nowhere close to as good Slippery When Wet.)

Skid Row: Slave to the Grind (This came out in the early 90s when grunge was taking over and bands like Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Poison, etc. were all lumped together as a punchline.) It rocks hard. Reminicent of Appetite for Destruction by GNR but I think even better.

+1 ... a gem of an album ... often underappreciated. Knopfler was really starting to hit stride with Communiqué (album that preceded Making Movies). The first three songs pack a punch -- Tunnel of Love, Romeo and Juliet, and Skateaway.

The criteria of playing the whole album, especially since iPod shuffle feature. Led Zeppelin-first one. Good Times, Bad Times is the best. AC/DC-Back in Black. Black Sabbath-first one. Also, showing my experience rather than age.

Anyone going on Monday? I've never seen them live. Can't wait. I can listen to almost any Zep, Journey, Foreigner, Radiohead, Muse, Arcade Fire, Yes, Strokes, Billy Joel, Who, Arctic Monkeys all the way thru.

A lot of mine have already been mentioned, so I'll just go with my absolute, all-time, top two:

U2 - War (I don't wanna say exactly that U2 went downhill after Achtung Baby, but almost all my favorite U2 songs are from AB or before. War is awesome. The album, snarkheads.)

Better Than Ezra - Deluxe (the entire music industry can put its collective heads together and not in a thousand years will they write a better album for listening to on a warm, sunny Friday afternoon in spring.)

That is some hardcore devotion right there. I can't claim to have sacrificed any body part in the name of BTE. You might've at least picked a better song than Cry in the Sun, it's the least good song on the album :P (No such thing as a "bad song" or a "worst song" on a favorite album, though.) Friction, Baby is alllmost as good as Deluxe.....but not quite there.

I have a friend with whom I've had quite a series of debates about that, by the way, over the course of oh basically our entire high school and college lives. He has always placed way more importance on the lyrics of a song than I have.

Really most of the 80's Metal/hair bands, that was my generation. I'm 45 and a father of 3 girls. Get ready to Gasp... I'm also happily going to see Pop Evil tomorrow in Johnson City, Tn. I'm also going to implore them to sing "In The Big House" here in the heart of SEC country. Nothing like a slap at all these Vols/SEC fans for me.

His album Long Hot Summer Is incredible too. Ace is one of those rare Hip Hop artists that got better with age like De La Soul (except for that weird First Serve or whatever it's called album they just dropped.)

Too bad You Tube is not available. Would like to dazzle some Chuppies with Spirit's 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, Pink Floyd,....be the 60's all over again. Great ex pat bar across the street from JW Marriot on Nanjing Blvd, Lindas I think.

Sorry to hijack the thread but I don't have enough points to create a topic. Devastating news is developing that there has been a shooting today at Auburn. Early reports are that two football players are dead and one is in the hospital.